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Lot #    5674
Auction End Date    10/8/2003 10:02:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Lehem Mishna
Title (Hebrew)    לחם משנה
Author    [First Ed.] R. Abraham de Boton
City    Venice
Publisher    Daniel Zaniti
Publication Date    1604
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. Two volumes, 42, 163; 239 [i.e. 242] ff., folio, 274:191 mm., usual age and damp staining, inital and final 3 ff. in each volume with paper repairs in the corners affecting several words. A good copy bound in contemporary calf on wood boards with modern leather spines. Titles in woodcut arches with floral borders.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Abraham b. Moses de Boton (1545?–1588), Salonika-born rabbi and halakhist. R. Boton was related to R. Moses di Trani and studied under R. Samuel de Medina together with R. Mordecai Kalai. He taught in Salonika and in Apulia. In his youth he began to write a commentary, Lehem Mishneh, to Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. In 1575 he obtained a copy of R. Joseph Caro's Kesef Mishneh on Mishneh Torah and from then on he included in his own work only those novellae and comments that had not already appeared in Caro's work. R. Boton's work, one of the most important commentaries on Mishneh Torah, was first published in two volumes (Venice, 1609); it has since been republished with nearly every edition. Lehem Rav (Smyrna, 1660) is a compendium of his responsa. A few of Boton's novellae on tractate Bava Kamma were published in R. Abraham ibn Akra's Me-Hararei Nemerim (Venice, 1599). Boton's clarity of expression and his lucid style are particularly evident in his responsa. Some of his responsa are signed "Hiyya Abraham b. Moses," the first name having been added after his recovery from a severe illness. Among his pupils were R. Samuel Hayon and R. Shabbetai Jonah. R. Boton died during a plague in Salonika.
          
Paragraph 2    יסדו ... ר' אברהם די בוטון והוא ביאור ... על ספר משנה תורה להרב ... הרמב"ם ז"ל: הוגה ... על יד ... ר' יצחק גרשון נר"ו ... חלק [א]-ב.

[חלק א: מדע-קדושה]. דף ב: הקדמת בן המחבר, ר' מאיר די בוטון. דף ג-ד, א: הקדמת המביא לבית הדפוס, ר' יוסף די נוביש בן ר' יהודה בן ר' שמואל בן ר' יוסף די נוביש. [חלק א:בעמ' האחרון שני שירים בשבח הספר: [1] אלה דברי פי חכם חן, מאת ר' משה טרפון. אוצר השירה והפיוט, א, עמ' 196, מס' 4280. [חלק א:[2] עורו צמאי בין שאו רינה. שם, ג, עמ' 258, מס' 251. חלק ב: [הפלאה-שופטים]. רלט [צ"ל: רמב] דף. דף ב-[ג, א]: הקדמה שנייה, מאת ר' יוסף די נוביש.

          
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Description		    CD-EPI 0121708; EJ
        
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17th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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